Re: updating GSE for the new millennium

On donderdag, mei 1, 2003, at 02:45 Europe/Amsterdam, David Conrad 
wrote:

>> We've been talking about GSE earlier this month before we got 
>> side-tracked. I think it's time to see what a descendent of the GSE 
>> family would look like in the third millennium, so I want to write a 
>> draft. Hopefully this will give us something useful to talk about in 
>> Vienna.

> Hmm.  I am doing the same thing (although I'm not planning on being in 
> Vienna).

Ok. It's going to be interesting to see the differences in two drafts 
based on the same approach.

>> What I'd like to do is take input from everyone and incorporate this 
>> as much as possible in this draft. That probably means more options 
>> and more complexity that we'd like to see in an actual protocol, but 
>> for now that's fine: we can always prune later.

> I would suggest starting the other direction -- the IETF already has 
> way too many drafts that try to be all things to all people.  Start 
> with a simple, easily understood base and see how far that gets you.

I hear you, but I'd still like to err on the side of including too 
much. If nothing else, this makes the discussion easier and we can 
always remove it later.

> Depending on your approach, it may not be necessary to rewrite the 
> source address.